Alright I've played for a few hours today so I'll do a quick highlights update (will probably do a follow-up every other day for the future)
After grabbing the fresh drip from Jokanur Diggings I was ready to go in the first (real) mission
image.png Did not get smushed
Then I set my sights for the first gold weapon in the game from the free chest...
image.png Could have been worse (right ?)
^Odurra speaking straight facts
Finally arrived in Kodlonu Hamlet and now that Dunkoro is enjoying his new staff, I'm left wondering what my next course of action will be, continue on with Nightfall or check out EotN.
Find out next time 
good luck, hope you make it 
Might try something similar
Hey hey people, I shall bring news of my adventure
That one came from the Mehtani Keys free chest, pretty good mods that can be used later
So I decided to continue on with Nightfall after quickly grabbing Vekk / Ogden / Gwen / Olias and everything went pretty smooth sailing in Kourna, got my Command Post fully kitted out, had a very close shave with the Drought (greedy bonus) which ended up being my biggest challenge by far
There are 2 problems I'm facing currently : - money for skills
- weapons
Weapons I can't really do much about it unless I get lucky drops, the blue max weapons are completely out of my budget and don't provide significant mods unlike the ones from Factions
Money I'm slowly but surely gathering to give my goon squad better skills but I can't buy anything and everything so I'm only getting skills that I know I'll be using forever
I got lucky with identifying a piece of armor during Kodonur Crossroads mission : image.png
After safely making it through Moddok Crevice this is what my team of baboons looks like (my BiP being my pride and joy) :
I'm basically a poor version of Rit ST providing %dmg reduction and block chance to my team while I can sit in the back and watch my health bar
The chest from Bahdok didn't land anything fruitful
The plan now : I'm looking to grab Energy Surge from Mirror of Lyss boss into Healers Boon from Resplendant Makkun and recruit Norgu
Afterwards I'll head to Factions and go through there to buy Save Yourselves, decent blue weapons for my Mesmers and getting Xandra's ST skills ready, recruit her then see what to do from there, I'm having a real hard time with damage right now so going through Vabbi and the margonites will be painful unless my plebs are decently kitted out and having a ST on the team will bring me peace of mind for my challenge
Thanks for following my adventure
See you next week
Good luck. Yeah I found paragon really underwhelming damage output wise, weakest char in gw imho . No easy stance removal a real pain. Spear wipe and ftw are good.
Be careful when you go to cap Esurge.
My run almost came to an end
Be careful when you go to cap Esurge.
My run almost came to an end
Yeah the trick for me was to bring an all physical damage team so I put Koss, Melonni and MOX to work and it was easy peasy, the first try though... my team got one shotted haha
Ahoi, the news are here
I carried on with the plan, got in order Esurge from Yammiron Ether Lord, Healers Boon from Josinq the Whisperer, recruited Norgu and then bounced to Cantha
image.png Togo enjoying his time in crispy fire aoe's during Tahnnakai Temple as he usually does
The next step was to grab ST from the Ritualist boss in Sunjiang District and I got him to spawn on the second try
Now to go and grab Xandra
image.png What a build lmao
I've got most of my hero setup done so it's time to think about myself, on my way to unlock Save Yourselves and little did I know you actually need rank 1 in either faction to grab the skill so I present to you my 600g investment that I'm the most proud of
image.png Perfection.
Did all the quests in the Jade Sea, farmed the Jade Arena for hours to have enough faction points to reach rank 1 and finally unlock the skill, then went ahead and finished my first campaign
image.png Brother Menhlo doesn't seem to thrilled that I'm hanging around his girl
The Command Shield is by far the best thing to grab for me at the end of Factions, the +5e 10%adre +30hp spear being the best one that I'll get my hands on hopefully at the end of Nightfall to complete my weapon set
This is the setup currently, Gwen and Norgu are geared with a 40/40 dom set that I had to scrape everything that I owned together to be able to afford, my next investment will be runes for everyone (myself included)
image.png sorry for potato quality, original screen doesn't wanna upload
For the future, I really wanna get my hands on some PvE skills in order to feel more useful to my team but I also want a good spear so I'm torn between finishing Nightfall (currently stationned before Sebelkeh mission) and tackling EotN
I've played a lot over the week because I found myself enjoying this challenge tremendously and I hope you enjoy catching up and reading on my little story
See you in the next one
incredible! looking forward to your progress!
Really nice progress for 30 h i think!
Good Luck!!
Rip I'm dead
Who do you take me for ?
So anyway I chose to kick Abaddon's butt first and on the way grabbing this lovely duplicate shield...
image.png not sure if lucky or unlucky 
image.png this one was lucky for sure
It all went pretty smooth in the torment, got all missions with their bonuses and finally beat my second campaign
image.png say hello to my new friend
Nightfall is a wrap, now time to tackle the great north and I got a couple of lockpicks along the way which I definetly won't say no to
image.png losing the challenge here would have been quite embarassing...
My biggest challenge in Normal Mode was upon me and I took extra precautions not to get vaporized while tossing barrels at her stupid face
image.png all good in the hood (even got a +5e insc from a burning hot hammer)
Last lap to finish EotN featuring Destruction's Depths and this is what the squad looks like
image.png and that's that
The plan moving forward will be finishing the normal mode books I've got with the optional missions in Factions/Nightfall, doing the Kerssh questline to give Xandra a decent staff, grind the Lb/Sunspear titles with junundu farming, upping my lux title to rank 5 with some vainquishing and finally completing zaishen quests that fit my to do list. My cash is going to continue to flow to my heroe's runes as they are quite expensive.
That week was crazy and I had a ton of fun, I wanna thank you the reader for following along and hope you also had pleasure catching up to my updates, now I'm going to take it a bit more slowly as Hard Mode grinds are upon me.
Look forward to weekly updates !
Take care
Rip
Today is a sad day
I was going back and forth with Jon from Toolbox on discord to resolve an issue regarding traps not showing, I was sending severals screens to him and was alt tabbed as it happened
image.png before the tragedy
image.png after the tragedy
Honestly I'm pretty bummed and I should delete my char as per my own rules dictate but it feels super bad knowing I wasn't actively playing when it happened so I'll let you guys decide what I should do
rip bozo and get rekt loser are ofc welcome
I think you should continue, you wad Not activly playing.
maybe you can ask a Game-master to delete your one death?
I think you should continue, you wad Not activly playing.
maybe you can ask a Game-master to delete your one death?
I don't think that's a thing haha
feels bad bro
if your OCD allows you, keep going
i wouldnt be able knowing i have that stain in the character forever ever, you need to rip properly
I would delete, the /deaths saying 1 will ruin the achievement imo
Sorry that happened 
einmal ist keinmal, zweimal ist einmal zu viel...
i get the appeal of wanting to go from a deathless gwamm, if you're doing iron man just go for iron man gwamm, too many good players get burnt out trying to do like 3+ challenging things at once.
Deathless- difficult to an extreme degree and requires a lot of f12 and closing the client
Gwamm-already hard enough on a fresh account
Ironman Style- no trading/opening storage however you wanna go about it, everyone does there own way
Just continue and go for speed on how fast you can do it with a fresh account
If I were to choose I would continue GWAMM without perma survi as it’s lost and have some fun with more agressive play style and farming
I think this should be up to you. I know there was a lot of hard work and dedication put in. I think the achievement would be more meaningful with 0 deaths, but regardless I am here for the journey.
And yes, some traps are not appearing and it's quite concerning.
I've thought long and hard and read all of your inputs and I decided that I will delete him, thanks everyone for tagging along
Do you plan to run another one, or taking a break?
I've thought long and hard and read all of your inputs and I decided that I will delete him, thanks everyone for tagging along
Do you plan to run another one, or taking a break?
Most likely taking a break, I'm pretty uninspired and unmotivated to play Gw right now
I'll keep you guys posted if I change my mind
See this response is why i'm not into the whole deathless ironman gwamm stuff, getting burnt out after 1 death and making decent progress just doesn't seem enjoyable. I get the appeal with a 'hey look what i did' stand point. But having to go back and delete a character after beating campaigns getting protector and restarting that doesnt sound fun.
See this response is why i'm not into the whole deathless ironman gwamm stuff, getting burnt out after 1 death and making decent progress just doesn't seem enjoyable. I get the appeal with a 'hey look what i did' stand point. But having to go back and delete a character after beating campaigns getting protector and restarting that doesnt sound fun.
My post sounded pretty depressing but it's not all in vain, I learned a valuable lesson about myself like I do many times when I go out of my comfort zone, doesn't erase the fun I had for a couple of weeks doing this 
Why you go out there without heros to keep you somewhat protected?
Why you go out there without heros to keep you somewhat protected?
I wasn't thinking they'd aggro me ,the aim was to take a quick screen of the warden's traps then bounce but I alt tabbed and uploaded it on discord without walking back or porting to safety
